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Retaining information
Someone in Mum’s dementia unit can read and retain information. Dont get me wrong, this is great. For them. Less so for people like me. Because, to keep people safe in a home such as Mum’s there are key pads … Continue reading
Cracking on with Tuesdays
This Tuesday I joined Mum for breakfast as there seemed rather a lot to get done and I’ve discovered it is possible to fit more into the day if you simply get up earlier and crack on. However, the level … Continue reading
Musical Bingo, anyone?
Now Mum has moved to the dementia unit at the care home, visiting has become a bit more of a gamble. There’s a lot more activities for Mum to take part in and the team have no qualms with ‘encouraging’ … Continue reading
Posted in care home, dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Bristol stool chart, Finding Joy In Chaos, Midlife Chaos, muddled life, musical bingo
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A tale of numbers that made me angry
Numbers are not my friends. They never have been. They move around when I try to write them down or remember them, and if there are too many to deal with I swear they pretty much run around in my … Continue reading
Posted in care home, dementia, family, looking after Mum
Tagged care home, caring for parents, finances, Midlife Chaos, muddled life, numbers, Surviving Midlife
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A bit of honesty
Dear people in my computer, I think I might have fallen into that social media trap a bit. You know, the one where you make life look a bit more smiley than it is. It’s tricky, because nobody wants to … Continue reading
Posted in care home, dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Caregiver Life, carehome, caring for parents, ElderCare, honesty, Midlife Chaos, Midlife Juggle, muddled life, Sandwich Generation, Sister 1, Sister 2
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I was doing it all wrong…
This week’s Tuesday included a surprisingly fantabulous trip to a hospital with Dad. It was fantabulous on a number of different levels: Dad’s breathing is better than it has been in ages and he was able to chat. I heard … Continue reading
Posted in care home, COPD, dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Caregiver Life, caring for parents, Daddy W, Elder Care, Finding Joy In Chaos, hostital trip, Midlife Chaos, Midlife Juggle, muddled life, Mummy W, Surviving Midlife
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🎈🎈🎈Happy birthday, Dad!🎈🎈🎈
Not quite what we had planned, but a damn good cake (my offer to make a chocolate poo was passed over 🤷🏼♀️), connecting all of us through the powers of technology and most of us in person too. 💜
Posted in care home, COPD, dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, stroke
Tagged alzheimers, caring for parents, COPD, Daddy W, elderly parents, happy birthday, looking after Mum, Surviving Midlife
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New Digs
It’s been just over a month since I last wrote here, but it feels more like a year. How else can so much have happened? the big thing though, is this: Mum has new digs. She now lives in a … Continue reading
Posted in care home, COPD, dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, stroke
Tagged alzheimers, care home, elderly parents, vascular dementia
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‘Our Place’; an alternative reality
I used to think dementia was very much about people forgetting. Words, places, people and more. We realised a good while back that for Mum it’s also about some sort of alternative reality that is based on nothing other than … Continue reading
Posted in dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, stroke, Tuesday, Tuesday TV
Tagged alternative reality, alzheimers, caring for parents, dementia, vasculardementia
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Reflections
It turns out that there is so much about demential that you don’t know you don’t know. Like that moment when your Mum doesn’t seem to recognise her own reflection. We’d been looking at videos and photos and I realised … Continue reading
Posted in dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, Tuesday, Tuesday TV
Tagged alzheimers, caringforparents, dementia, reflection, vasculardementia, video
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